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title: one solution to the data permanence problem
date: '2007-08-05'
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![Berkman Logo](../../assets/images/berkman.jpg)Part of the open services discussion at barcamp yesterday was about permanence: how do you guarantee that your data is always available so that you can take it and go elsewhere with it? [Doc Searls has one solution to the problem](http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/docsearls/2007/08/03/the-future-contd/):
> Since I’m a Berkman fellow at Harvard, and the blogs here are well-supported, and they’ll continue to be supported after my fellowship is over — and **since Harvard has [been around](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University) since 1636** — [Harvard's blogging server] seemed like a good choice.

(emphasis mine.)